innovation – Positive Mental Health

Organizations and Positive Mental Health

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Organizations

Organizations and Organizational Health

Dr. Yukio Ishizuka worked for 4 years at McKinsey (1969-1972) as an Associate on general management consulting. At McKinsey he admired Marvin Bower his mentor and worked on assignments in Paris, Amsterdam, Toronto, Tokyo and NY offices in a variety of businesses. Yukio Ishizuka also spent one year at Arthur D. Little as a Consultant (1968-69) on organizational development projects for top management teams for conflict resolution and enhancing creativity. From 1972-1976 he didmergers and acquisitions for U.S. acquisitions as President and Director of a company financed by Mitsubishi International.

Nathalie Ishizuka studied business, negotiation and international affairs taking classes such as Managing Innovation, and Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations at HBS and the winter Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law. She has an MBA from HEC Paris and a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. After successfully completing the first year of a Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations at the Haas School of Business, she left academia to pursue her interest in organizations, health, and technology by directly working with innovative firms, including starting her own. She is grateful to Haas and in particular to Oliver Williamson for helping her understand how new paradigms in organizations are built.

Organizational Model

Based on his understanding of individual personality and health, and his experience working for a variety of companies Dr. Yukio Ishizuka has developed organizational models that integrate with the individual personality model. They have been used to help CEOs better understand and track a variety of factors that contribute to their organization’s success and excellence. Dr. Yukio Ishizuka has presented the individual and organizational models to corporations such as AT&T, IBM, and other elite Japanese, American and European CEOs.

Nathalie Ishizuka (MBA) has written a working paper integrating Individual and Organizational Effectiveness: a Systems View integrating Yukio Ishizuka’s model of human personality with Chris Argyris’ model of organization and pushing the two further by defining criteria for Organizational Health models. In the paper she expands on Yukio Ishizuka’s existing organizational model with a systems view of organizations; integrating the individual model of health with organizational health. In addition to this academic interest, she works with entrepreneurs and new technologies in the creative process of innovation.

Readings, Lectures, More Info on Organizational Health and Excellence

Ishizuka, Yukio. Lecture: “In Search of Excellence and Well-Being” Presentation of Life-Track to Mr. Ralph Pheifer, Chairman of IBM Asia and Americas and staff to help enhance executive performance. 1985 (2 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio. “Individual and Organizational Excellence and Well-Being” Lecture forKeizai Doyu-kai Nagoya Chapter meeting of 200 CEOs and senior executives, 1987 (1.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio, “Facing Structural Challenges: The U.S. and Japan.” AT&T Global Business Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, March 26, 1992 (2.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio. “The Breakdown of Elite Japanese Executives Abroad” Lecture forKeizai Doyu-kai meeting of 200 Japanese CEOs, 1986 (1.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio. “How To Overcome Stress at the Top” Lecture for The Japanese Chemical Manufacturers Club, 50 C.E.O.’s of the Japanese chemical manufacturing companies, September 23, 1997 (1 hour)

Ishizuka, Yukio, “The Japanese Mind: Its Implications for the U.S.-Japan Relationship” AT&T Global Business Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, March 26, 1992 (2.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio, “Facing Structural Challenges: The U.S. and Japan.” AT&T Global Business Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, March 26, 1992 (2.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio. “Excellence and Wellbeing : How to Achieve and Grow Both” Lecture forAnnual Meeting of IFMSA-Japan (International Federation of Medical Student Association-Japan)

Ishizuka, Yukio. “Happiness and Success : How To Achieve and Grow Both” Lecture forNippon Club of New York, 2007

Ishizuka, Y. and ed. Ishizuka N., “Special Report, How to Help Executives under Stress,”Nikkei Business, September 1992.

Ishizuka, Yukio, “Breakdown of a Japanese Businessman: a Trap for Business Elites,”Voice Magazine, January 1984.

Ishizuka, Yukio, “The Pitfall for Business Elites,” Nikkei Business, the leading Japanese Business Magazine, September 1986.

Ishizuka, Yukio. “Stress is Your Friend,” Asahi Shinbun International, August 27,1992. A feature interview with Dr. Ishizuka.

Ishizuka, Yukio, “Japan’s Place in the World,” Zaikai-Koron, a Japanese business monthly, 1976. Among those interviewed by Dr. Ishizuka were Mr. David Rockefeller, Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, Mr. George Ball, former Secretary of State, Mr. Joseph Fravin, CEO of Singer & C., Professor Henry de Bettignies, Director of the Asian Center of INSEAD, and Professor Hugh T. Patrick of Yale University.

Shiroyama, S., The Conditions for Survival. Kodansha: Tokyo, 1991. The book consists of in-depth interviews with eleven individuals from diverse fields. Dr. Ishizuka was interviewed along with the economist Milton Friedman, Andrew Night, editor-in-chief of The Economist, and golfer Jack Nicolas.

“International Front, Japanese Middle Management under Stress,” The New York Times, Sunday March 29,1992. Interview with Dr. Ishizuka.

Casey, E., “A New Computer Tool,” Wall Street Micro News, Oct. 1985.

Lewyn, Mark and Kelly, Erin. “Now, Feedback from Life-Track,” USA Today, September 26,1985.

“Mental Health for an International Businessman,” Mental Health Magazine for Management, March 1984.

Berger, M., “A Japanese Psychiatrist’s Answer to Executive Stress,” International Management, McGraw-Hill, March 1987. An interview with Dr. Yukio Ishizuka introducing Life-Track.

Yogata, M., “Personal Setback and Growth,” Marubeni, December 1985. A personal account documenting the depression and recovery of one of Dr. Ishizuka’s former patients while on assignment in New York. The article celebrates Yogata’s promotion toDirector of leading Japanese corporation.

Costa, P., “The Case of Sad Success,” Gannet Westchester Newspapers, September 11, 1985. A cover-page interview featuring Dr. Ishizuka.

“From Management Consulting to Psychiatric Practice,” Trapedia, May 1982. Interview with Dr. Ishizuka.

“First Encounters,” Business Tokyo, January 1992. Dr. Ishizuka quoted as expert for American businessmen in Japan.

“Japanese Executives Under Stress,” Yomiuri Shinbun, January 12,1986.

Shiroyama, S., Getting Stronger, Overcoming Setbacks. Nippon Keizai Shimbun: Tokyo, 1983. Shiroyama is one of the most prominent authors in Japan. Quotes Dr. Ishizuka extensively.

Woller, B., “When Work is Your World,” Gannet Westchester Newspapers, February 2,1988. Dr. Ishizuka quoted in front-page article.

A Need for Models based on Healthy Human Beings

Organizational and International behavior should be based on assumptions about healthy human beings. Read section a Science of Health (life way), Criteria for Health Models (science of happiness), Happiness Defined? Quantified? (cycle of life), Happier? (fear of the unknown), Why Positive Mental Health Works (objective subjective), and Insights (life purpose).

Visit the Positive Mental Health Foundation to support a study of human beings at their best, happiest, and most creative form. Link to us to promote health and happiness.

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Applications about healthy human beings to economics, international affairs, nations, organizational behavior. A new organizational behavior concept or simply a new field of international behavior based on healthy human beings?

Applications of Psychology to Organizations, Nations, International Affairs

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Applications About Healthy Human Beings to Other Fields?

Behind Science, Simple Assumptions about the Nature of Human Beings

Behind every social science are some fundamental and simple assumptions about the nature of human beings and human personality. When models of science incorporate assumptions about humans in our optimal most creative form, we can understand better what we are truly capable of, as well as our limits. Models about healthy human beings can provide new insights into our organizations, and international affairs, forming not only a new individual science, but new organizational models, and a more comprehensive science of international behavior.

All Models of Man are Working Models in Progress

Some of the work on this site applies a healthy assumption about human beings to other fields (for example to the work of the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economics). Other work attempts to bring to life conceptual models that can be used as a level of analysis (individual, organizational, national or international). At the core of such models are Lifetrack assumptions about healthy human beings.

Naturally, human beings are not organizations or nations. However, having models that can interact as systems allows us to understand how each unit of analysis influences and impacts the whole.

New Models Based on an Individual Model of Health

In the future, we would enjoy working on such models and applications further, but now our priority is to get one individual model of health and personality known and used on a wider scale by the general public.

Manage with an Understanding of Healthy Human Beings

We encourage politicians, CEOs, and scientists, to think about the assumptions about the nature of man or human personality that underlie a healthy nation, organization or any field of science.

We encourage academics to build models based on an understanding of healthy human beings or models of human personality that can explain man at his best, most creative form as well as in distress. These models should encompass our potential and our limits.

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Apply assumptions about healthy human beings to your firm, to science, to organizations, nations or international affairs. If you have a syllabus or other interesting links on the study of healthy human beings and applications to sciences, send it to Nathalie Ishizuka through the contact page. She will find a means to share some of these links, works, or articles on healthy human beings.

A Need for Models Based on Healthy Human Beings

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Nathalie Ishizuka

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Nathalie Leiko Ishizuka enjoys thinking and writing about happy human beings, a science of health, criteria for health models, defining happiness, quantifying happiness, states of inner wellbeing, and the structure of healthy optimal human minds. She has applied Lifetrack assumptions about healthy human beings to a variety of disciplines including to the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economics.

Nathalie has spent over 18 years of learning and writing about the mind and how Dr. Yukio Ishizuka‘s positive mental health approach (a Harvard trained Japanese psychiatrist and her father) transforms personality (see how Lifetrack works and insights on Life Purpose).

After working several years with Dr. Yukio Ishizuka, in 1995 her desire to extend assumptions about healthy human beings to other fields including economics, organizations and international affairs lead her to complete the Master’s program onLaw and Diplomacy, and an MBA.

As a graduate student, Nathalie Ishizuka applied the health concepts (called Lifetrack) to both the firm and the nation-state. A number of Harvard Business School students preferred Ishizuka’s application of Lifetrack concepts to the firm over the assigned reading of The Road Less Traveled. The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School published her working paper dealing with Lifetrack concepts and mediation. Ishizuka’s work on psychology and the GATT (now WTO) resulted in a correspondence with Arthur Dunkel, former head of the World Trade Organization. Her work, “Lessons from Preventive Health to Preventive Diplomacy,” received the attention of former U.N. Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Ghali and that of the office of Kofi Annan, winning also the Eisaku Sato Memorial Essay Award from the U.N. University in Tokyo.

Accepted in the Ph.D. program at Berkeley in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, she told her professors at Fletcher she would go there to apply an assumption on healthy human beings to Oliver Williamson’s (recipient of 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics) theory of the firm.

It is at Berkeley that she met a new mentor, Dr. Len Duhl, who at the early age of twenty-one, headed Mental Health in the United States. In May of 1998, the School of Public Health, introducing her to work with the Menninger Foundation, proposed her name for an NIMH fellowship. “I greatly admire the Menninger brothers, and yet it was too early for such work,” said Ishizuka. “I came to apply a psychology based on healthy human beings to organizations and economics, but something was missing. I needed to test models through organizational experience, to go far beyond my conceptual knowledge.” Greatly admiring Oliver Williamson and Len Duhl, she agonized, but left academia, following the man she loved to Paris and picking up an MBA during her stay.

Enjoying work with innovative individuals, companies, entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists, she founded a small innovative company to teach herself about promoting health through entertainment and technology. “The idea that inspired me is far too big for me,” says Ishizuka, “but, sometimes things don’t work out for a reason. Perhaps it will surface elsewhere.”

“I am not an expert in highly specialized fields, but when I lack the answers or the expertise, I am good at finding, meeting, and working with those who do,” says Ishizuka.

My mentors in many fields have taught me much about the human mind, about happiness and how to create innovation across disciplines. Technology is a tool, not an ends.

By helping individuals enjoy the process of their own creation, she believes she can create far more change than on her own.

Nathalie’s inter-disiplinary approach integrating the psychology of individuals, organizations, and the nation state has lead her to work with individuals from many fields and to receive the George A.Plimpton Fellowship for the study of social, economic and political institutions.

She has created the Positive Mental Health Foundation site to promote quality information on health, happiness and reduction of human suffering. While the focus of this site is on individual health, applications to other fields can be found in the sectionapplications of a psychology of health.

New Focus Japan Crisis

Her current focus is on the Japan crisis. (Nathalie), also called Leiko by her Japanese friends, is working on an article with, Dr. Paul Briot, Ph.D. in philosophy and a Belgian essayist, on using the crisis as an opportunity for positive change.

“I’ve met and worked with brilliant, talented, and profound people in all sectors, says Ishizuka, including my father. And yet, never an individual that has moved me to put all else aside and to focus. Never an individual as inter-disciplinary, modest, knowledgable and spiritual. Then again, the Japanese crisis may offer us one of the greatest challenges we have seen in a long time. And one of the greatest opportunities.”

Past academic interests include applying Lifetrack assumptions about the healthy mind to organizations, nations, Japan, economics, negotiation, crisis management & diplomacy,economic integration, war/crisis/health, international affairs, econometric modeling and the mind, and political science.

Attracted to life, to learning, and to pushing an understanding of the healthy mind further, she believes innovation comes from the cross-road of disciplines.

Nathalie Leiko Ishizuka is married to a French man (who like her mother has no need of theories on happiness), has two children and lives in Brussels, Belgium where she pursues her vocation of writing and teaching a psychology of health. She works with scientists, engineers and many others in a variety of fields.

Nathalie received her M.B.A. from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (administered in cooperation with Harvard), and a B.A. Political Science, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, Amherst College. She participated in the winter Harvard Law Negotiation Program. She is a member of SCWBI and enjoys capturing movement in watercolor.

For an excerpt on applying an assumption about healthy human beings to the Nobel Laureate in Economics (2009) read Oliver Williamson’s theory of the firm.

For a lighter read, see her book OTHER based on Health and Happiness for children and parents who dare to be different www.natsays.com

Visit http://www.PositiveMentalHealthFoundation.com to understand individuals at their best, happiest, and most creative form. Link to us to promote health and happiness.

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